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the exigencies of the times, and, at 
this moment, forms such a bulwark 
to the constitution and liberties of 
the country, as will enable us, un- 
der the protection of Providence, to 
bid defiance to the puprovoked ma- 
lice of our enemies, and to hurl 
back, with becoming indignation, 
the threats which they have presum- 
ed to vent against our independence, 
and even our existence as a nation. 
His majesty has observed, with pe- 
culiar pleasure, that, amoigst the 
unprecedented exertions which the 
present circumstances of the coun- 
try have called forth, thosé of the 
capital of his united kingdom have 
been eiinently conspicuous, The 
appearance of its numerous and well- 
regulated volunteer corps, which 
were reviewed on the 26th and 28th 
instant, indicates a degree of atten- 
tion and emulation, both in officers 
and men, which can proceed only 
from a deep sense of the important 
objects for which they have enrolled 
themselves, a just estimation of the 
blessings we have so long enjoyed, 
and a firm and manly determination 
to defend them like Britons, and 
transmit them, unimpaired, to our 
posterity. The commander in chief 
has the highest satisfaction in dis- 
charging his duty, by communicat- 
ing these, his majesty’s most graci- 
- ous sentiments, and requests that the 
commanding officers will have re- 
course to the readiest means of 
making the same known to their 
- respective corps. 
‘6 Frederic, commander in chief.” 
_. The following are the proceedings 
of the University of Cambridge on 
the subject of arming : : agrace was 
_ passed by the senate in these words : 
‘¢ Cum bellum in dies singulos in-- 
_grayescat; hostesque jam tandem sese 
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in ipsam Britannia irrupturos esse 
minitentur : : 
‘6 Placeat Vobis, quo melius Ju- 
venes Academici Patriz periclitanti 
opitulentur, aut ii Scolares in qua. 
cungue Facultate hunc Terminum 
compleyvisse censeantur, qui militan- 
di causé cum consensu Parentum, 
aut eorum qui sunt Pareritum in lo- 
co, ab Academia abfuerint: Provi- 
so tamen, ut unusquisque eorum li. 
teras testimoniales secundum formu. 
lam sequentem producat, que vos 
certiores faciant eos bona fide milita- 
rem operam havyasse.” [ Here fol- 
lows the form. | 
At a meeting of the heads at 
King’s Lodge, a request from the 
lay members of the university hay- 
ing been made, that an hour be 
fixed on for the time of drilling, 
which shall not interfere with pub- 
lic lectures ; and to which the tu- 
tors of the different colleges shall, on 
that account, have no reasonable 
cause of objection; it was agreed, 
‘¢ That twelve o’clock be the hour 
fixed on for the drill. That the tu- 
tors of the different colleges recom- 
mend to such of their pupils as 
mean to be drilled, that they be re- 
gular im their attendance. That no 
military uniform be worn at the 
drill; but that such alteration be 
permitted in the dress of its members 
as the captain of the drill may deem 
essentially requisite towards the 
performance of its duties: and this 
dress to be worn only at the drill. 
That regular officers of the army, 
or serjeants, may be allowed, from 
time to time, to be.provided for the 
instruction of the drill; until some 
of its members, by their proficiency 
in military knowledge, be deemed 
capable of supplying their place. 
And we moreover recommend it. to 
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